Showing posts with label childhood obesity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label childhood obesity. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Canadian kids get failing grade for physical activity - CTV News

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Canadian schoolchildren are getting poor grades over how much, or how little, physical activity they get on a daily basis. Active Healt...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

HealthyChildren.org - Healthy Children (Powered by Pediatricians)

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Hot Topics Study Finds Parents Favor Predictive Genetic Tests For Children 4/18/2011 more ...

Contagious Habits: How Obesity Spreads | Wired Science | Wired.com

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By Jonah Lehrer April 19, 2011  |  2:06 pm  |  Categories: Frontal Cortex , Science Blogs A few years ago, Nicholas Christak...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Obesity In Childhood Leads To Poor Posture And Back Pain

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Being overweight as a child and adolescent can lead to poor postures linked to back pain , according to new research by Curtin University&#...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Ross Kristal: Establishing a BODY of Work to Combat Obesity & Diabetes | Einstein Features

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While the explosion of diabetes is making headlines the world over, a group of Einstein students is taking the fight against obesity and di...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Philadelphia School Battles Students’ Bad Diets - NYTimes.com

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Tatyana Gray bolted from her house and headed toward her elementary school. But when she reached the corner store where she usually gets he...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Diet Soda Makes You Fat | Foodie Buzz

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The Wall Street Journal  just  reported  that Diet Coke beats out Pepsi for consumers in the US—only Coke beats them both in total sales. ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Fighting Childhood Obesity in Minority Communities | MinorityNurse.com

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The eight-year-old girl in Dr. Sheila Davis’ qualitative study on childhood obesity weighed 205 pounds. The little girl and 16 other chil...